Music that makes you cry when you just think about it, let alone listen to it?

[Mintyy]

Mine is the theme tune to the 70s tv series Black Beauty. The closing credits with the black horse galloping through the wheat field.

Sheesh, I am getting all silly just typing that.

I would definitely cry if I were to see/hear it.

Oh - This Woman's Work by Maxwell

I'm forcing myself not to google things on here so I don't spend the night sobbing!

Gobbolino, if you're living in an area prone to flooding, you might want to hide the thread

Right - need to stop. This is my third post!

Gabriel's oboe , puff the magic dragon and two little boys

Doctrine - I need to be very careful. I had to get DH to finish reading Peepo to DS tonight. My emotional state is very fragile

Queen These are the days of our lives. That bit at the end when Freddie looks directly to camera and whispers 'I still love you' and he looks so ill.

You are my sunshine
my only sunshine
you make me happy when skys are grey
you'll never know dear
how much I love you
please don;t take
my sunshine away

I'm welling up just thinking about it... sad soppy old git emoticon needed.

I will be there by Katie Melua, we're losing DMIL to cancer I listen to it when I need to release some sobs at home

Two Little Boys (unfortunately)
Jerusalem
In this Heart (Sinead O'Connor)
Linger (Cranberries)
The whole of George Michael's Listen Without prejudice - it just recaptures a very specific time for me.
Stravinsky's Firebird
Being Alive - Sondheim.

Eclectic tastes, I have!

Many of the Marian hymns, but especially

Ave Maria O Maiden O Mother
Hail Queen of Heaven The Ocean Star

Chasing cars. It was played at my dearest friends funeral, and the image of her 4yo dd kissing the casket and saying 'goodbye Mummy' will make me cry forever. :(

Imagine, John Lennon. My friend bought Ds a musical mobile thingy for over his cot. I remember playing it and sitting staring at my sleeping newborn boy just crying - I was so emotional, happy, scared, awestruck at the perfection of him.

Sounds daft, I know, but id never been a maternal type, babies never made me go to jelly like some, but when I had him, like im sure everyone else feels, I was just overcome with an all consuming love for him I never thought was possible.

He's 11 now and when I look at him asleep, I can still hear that music in my head! wipes away tears

"You belong to me" (see the pyramids along the Nile...) makes me sob as it was played at both my Nanna's and my Grandad's funerals :(

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl

Wow some beautiful songs on here, think ill have to create a Spotify playlist for when I need a damn good cry!

I would second Adagio for Strings

The last song that made me cry was Boy George, Bow down Mr. It's a really happy song and reminded me of a happy time in my life, on holiday with an ex but felt sad those times were over...

Oh yes and another religious one - a carol - We Three Kings, of all things. It's the way that suddenly the kids are singing about a little baby and how when he grows up he'll be "Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, Sealed in a stone cold tomb". Never used to get me before I had my son but now I embarrass myself at every single blardy carol service.

And yy to Incredible Hulk music.

The Shire theme music from LOTR and The Hobbit sets me off. Then right at the end of the Return of the King, Sam carries Bilbo up Mount Doom and the orchestra swells and the horns break in at fortissimo.

Yes bright eyes, black beauty etc. Not so much songs. Le Corsair overture slow movement directly aft intro. Forza del destino too. #Hackneyed

Billy Connolly singing Irish Heartbeat. I heard his version when I lost my closest relative and the words, the music, his voice, everything about it really help me whenever I need to release that ache.

Auld Lang Syne too.

oh yes, the littlest hobo, I weep rivers, and Kate Bush This Woman's Work
when I was little The Police, every breath you take had me in tears.
and yes - Imagine and Woman, every time I hear them I am transported back to when John was shot, I was only little but devastated. I remember at the family christmas boxing day party the year he died, my Nan came in the kitchen saying 'In't it awful about Elton being shot?' she'd got her Johns mixed up, but cheered everyone up no end.

You raise me up- mum's funeral
Highland cathedral- dad's funeral
Danny boy- just the most beautiful tune
Auld Lang syne-Have cried singing at a panto. Thought marriage was over( it wasn't)
On a day like this- elbow- had my little boys naming ceremony

Snow Patrol - You Could Be happy

Neil diamond- love on the rocks and September morn
Try a little tenderness- just an amazing song

Ocean deep by cliff Richard from my sisters funeral
You raise me up by Daniel O,Donnel which we had at mums funeral
And Run by Leona Lewis

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel no idea why

Feel Like Going Home, but only Tim Minchin's version. I first heard it at a time when the lyrics really resonated with my state of mind, and there was something very consoling about the way he sang/played it. It sounds like "he" (the narrator) isn't just resigned to failure, but actually embracing the comfort of allowing "himself" to give up and retreat to his safe place or at least that's how it sounded to me, when I was trying to force myself to carry on with something that I really couldn't cope with...

Over The Rainbow on classical guitar does it for me too. The first guy I nearly went out with taught me to play it so I was obsessed with it for a while as a teenager, and it stayed my favourite song long after I lost interest in him. A decade later, DH's best man played it beautifully for us at our wedding (which I hope my ex music tutor never finds out because he would definitely misinterpret that), so now it calls up really lovely memories of my wedding day and the general feeling of being a cheerfully obsessive teen with crap taste in blokes and a wonderfully uncomplicated life .

I'm surprised to see so many mentions of Auld Lang Syne - DH has always been about the fact that it makes me weepy. It makes sense though - rituals always make me emotional, and New Year is charged with so many emotions ("thank fuck that's over"/"I'll do better this time"/"I wish X was still here" etc). This year was the first one I spent away from my folks' house, and I opened the front door at midnight and stood in the cold night air, knowing that they were doing the same thing hundreds of miles away, and seriously thought I was going to keep the tears in until Aud Lang Syne started...

Bloody hell, even writing this post made me cry!

BerryLellow, Ordinary People really gets to me too ever since a contestant on The Voice sang it - will.i.am wrote it about a difficult relationship he had and seeing how emotional it made him when he heard it made me well up.

One Day in Your Life by Michael Jackson has always made me sob ever since I was a child. (I'm blubbing now!)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Eva Cassidy) - was played at DS's funeral and I can never listen to it again. I had wanted the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (Hawaiian) version but wasn't together enough to explain to anyone so that particular version is special to me but still makes me cry.

oh yes, The Commodores - Three Times a Lady
Hello - by aforementioned lead singer sometimes fills me up